Amor,what? Here, yes!

Are you still searching,
searching for that one,
to hold and keep you up all night.
Someone to love.
Well, you're doing it wrong.
Why seek for love for a short term warmth and recognition.
A heart break, over and over again.
Feeling out of touch, loss for words, loss for reality.
Stop searching for this fantasy.
Love was here all along.
Take a look,
not out the window,
but at yourself.
Deep breaths.
Practice this special phrases:
¨I love you,¨ (while looking at yourself in the mirror.)
Look into those glorious eyes!
Love was here all along!
Step into the world knowing this!
You know who you are, what you enjoy.
How you would like to live your life.
Stop searching for someone and be happy making your goals come true.
LOVE HERE ALL ALONG

PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK OF POETRY

Editor’s Note

The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”